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<h1><span class="header-section-number">Chapter 1</span> Preface</h1>
<p>In this online book, I would like to compare the usage of several Venn Diagram
tool in R environment. It is the investigation of these existing tools prompted
me to develop a new tool <code>ggVennDiagram</code>.</p>
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<h2><span class="header-section-number">1.1</span> Prerequisites</h2>
<p>List of packages</p>
<ul>
<li><code>VennDiagram</code></li>
<li><code>colorfulVennPlot</code></li>
<li><code>venn</code></li>
<li><code>nVennR</code></li>
<li><code>eulerr</code></li>
<li><code>venneuler</code></li>
<li><code>gplots</code></li>
<li><code>ggVennDiagram</code></li>
<li><code>ggvenn</code></li>
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<p>You need to install these packages.</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="index.html#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>cran_packages <span class="ot">&lt;-</span> <span class="fu">c</span>(<span class="st">&quot;VennDiagram&quot;</span>,<span class="st">&quot;colorfulVennPlot&quot;</span>,<span class="st">&quot;gplots&quot;</span>,<span class="st">&quot;venn&quot;</span>,</span>
<span id="cb1-2"><a href="index.html#cb1-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>                   <span class="st">&quot;nVennR&quot;</span>, <span class="st">&quot;eulerr&quot;</span>,<span class="st">&quot;venneuler&quot;</span>,<span class="st">&quot;ggVennDiagram&quot;</span>)</span>
<span id="cb1-3"><a href="index.html#cb1-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>xfun<span class="sc">::</span><span class="fu">pkg_load2</span>(cran_packages)</span>
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<span id="cb1-5"><a href="index.html#cb1-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># GitHub</span></span>
<span id="cb1-6"><a href="index.html#cb1-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">if</span> (<span class="sc">!</span><span class="fu">requireNamespace</span>(<span class="st">&quot;ggvenn&quot;</span>)){</span>
<span id="cb1-7"><a href="index.html#cb1-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>  remotes<span class="sc">::</span><span class="fu">install_github</span>(<span class="st">&quot;yanlinlin82/ggvenn&quot;</span>)</span>
<span id="cb1-8"><a href="index.html#cb1-8" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>}</span></code></pre></div>
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<h2><span class="header-section-number">1.2</span> Sessioninfo</h2>
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<pre><code>## R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
## Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19041)
## 
## Matrix products: default
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## [1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 
## [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936   
## [3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
## [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                              
## [5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936    
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] gtools_3.8.2         tidyselect_1.1.0     xfun_0.22           
##  [4] venneuler_1.1-0      bslib_0.2.4          purrr_0.3.4         
##  [7] rJava_0.9-13         colorspace_2.0-0     vctrs_0.3.7         
## [10] generics_0.1.0       htmltools_0.5.1.9000 yaml_2.2.1          
## [13] rlang_0.4.10         jquerylib_0.1.3      pillar_1.4.6        
## [16] DBI_1.1.0            RVenn_1.1.0          glue_1.4.2          
## [19] lambda.r_1.2.4       lifecycle_1.0.0      stringr_1.4.0       
## [22] munsell_0.5.0        gtable_0.3.0         futile.logger_1.4.3 
## [25] caTools_1.18.0       evaluate_0.14        knitr_1.31          
## [28] colorfulVennPlot_2.4 Rcpp_1.0.6           KernSmooth_2.23-18  
## [31] admisc_0.11          ggVennDiagram_1.1.0  scales_1.1.1        
## [34] formatR_1.7          jsonlite_1.7.2       gplots_3.1.0        
## [37] ggplot2_3.3.2        digest_0.6.27        stringi_1.5.3       
## [40] bookdown_0.21        dplyr_1.0.5          grid_4.0.4          
## [43] nVennR_0.2.3         ggvenn_0.1.8         tools_4.0.4         
## [46] bitops_1.0-6         magrittr_2.0.1       eulerr_6.1.0        
## [49] sass_0.3.1           tibble_3.0.4         futile.options_1.0.1
## [52] venn_1.9             crayon_1.3.4         pkgconfig_2.0.3     
## [55] ellipsis_0.3.1       assertthat_0.2.1     rmarkdown_2.7       
## [58] rstudioapi_0.13      R6_2.5.0             VennDiagram_1.6.20  
## [61] compiler_4.0.4</code></pre>

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